Board of Directors

Evan Anderman (Board Chair): Evan is a Colorado native. He is a fine-art landscape and nature photographer with a previous career in the earth sciences. Hi is firmly committed to local non-profits and the arts and has served on numerous boards and committees in the past 20 years. Most notably he was one of four people who helped form the Photography Department at the Denver Art Museum and continues to serve on the Photography Department Advisory Committee (2008-present). He is a member of the Santa Fe Art District in Denver, and served on the board of Working with Artists from 2005-09. Evan joined as Chair of the Board in March 2012.

Monique Crine: Monique Crine was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She obtained her B.A. from San Francisco State University, and her M.F.A. from Cornell University. She is the recipient of many awards including a Pollock-Krasner Fondation Grant; CCA grant; the Bank of America Award in Fine Arts; and a National MS Society scholarship. Since her first show in 1996, Crine has exhibited across North America, with solo shows in New York, Colorado and California.

Carol Keller:  Carol was the gallery director and curator for seventeen years at the Auraria Higher Education Center and has been a gallery owner and consultant.   Devoted to the arts, she served on the Board of the Alliance for Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum for six years and more recently, the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver from 2005 to 2010.  Keller holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Master of Humanities degree combining fine art and communication.  She has participated on public art panels, served as a curator and a juror of art exhibitions, developed collections and has a keen interest in the photo-based arts.

Brad Knepper: Brad is a Shareholder in a Denver law firm, where he works with innovative companies and individuals to secure their intellectual property. An amateur photographer for many years, he joined the CPAC Board in late 2010, and is excited about working with the other members of the CPAC to help the organization reach its goal of being the premier photographic arts center in the region.

Andrew Lillie: Andrew is husband to a wonderful wife and father of two young girls. He is a natural-resources and environmental lawyer in Denver, and an avid photographer. Mr. Lillie was a working journalist before and during law school, and has a passion for photojournalism and all of the gorgeous, poignant, life-affirming, and life-transcending visions that great photography embodies.

Micah Messenheimer (Secretary): Micah Messenheimer is curatorial assistant in the departments of photography and textile art at the Denver Art Museum. Prior to beginning at the museum in February, 2010, he worked as a digital imaging specialist at the University of Denver Visual Media Center and assisted with archival inventorying and research of the Vittorio Sella photographic collection at the American Alpine Club Library. He holds an MA in art history and museum studies from DU, an MFA in visual art from San Francisco State University, and a BFA in photography from Ball State University. His essay, “On Entropology: The Vivid Waters of David Maisel and Robert Smithson,” is forthcoming in the Petrie Institute of Western American Art publication Elevating Western American Art.

Kevin O’Connell: Kevin O’Connell’s obsession with vastness formed in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s during cross-country road trips between Chicago and Denver. Since then he has extensively photographed the landscape of the Great Plains using the horizon and a minimalist palette to explore the nature of all things. Kevin’s work is in numerous public and private collections and he has exhibited extensively, most recently in solo exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Everything Comes Broken) and the Robischon Gallery in Denver (Conventional Entropy). He has received two fellowship grants at the Ucross Foundation and has had works published in numerous magazines and photographic journals such as High Desert Journal, Orion, LensWork, and 21st.  www.kmoconnell.com

Lydia Vanderburg (Treasurer): Lydia Vanderburg is currently employed with JVA Consulting, where she performs benefits administration, oversees procurement, manages budgets, and prepares financial statements.  As a supporter of the arts, she believes in giving back to the arts community. To that end, she started volunteering for Working with Artists in 2004 and continues to donate her time performing accounting functions for the New CPAC. Just recently, she served as the Board Chair for Working with Artists and helped facilitate WWA’s merger with CPAC. 

Edie Winograde (Collections Manager): Edie Winograde received a MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York city in 1995, and holds a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been living and working in Denver since 2007, and teaches photography at Metropolitan State College. Winograde’s photographs have been exhibited nationally in museums and art venues including the Nicolaysen Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the International Center for Photography, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Artists Space. Her work is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver and the Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Awards for her work include an Aaron Siskind Foundation Photographer’s Fellowship and artist’s residencies at Kala Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Millay Colony for the Arts. www.ewinograde.com